Shortness Quotes

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.